A First Nation in Alberta will be in court Tuesday seeking to shut down a petition urging the province to quit Confederation.
The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is in Edmonton asking a Court of King’s Bench judge to suspend the petition campaign on the grounds First Nations’ consent is required first.
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It is alleging a failure by Alberta, Canada and the province’s chief electoral officer to uphold treaty rights.
A group named Stay Free Alberta is collecting signatures to qualify for a referendum on Alberta leaving Canada.
Premier Danielle Smith’s government has said if they get enough names, the question will be put to a vote.
Stay Free Alberta says it has already collected more than the 178,000 signatures required to trigger the vote with a month to go before it must submit the names to Elections Alberta.
Separatists are delusional. There is a higher likely hood of Danielle Smith crossing the floor to become a member of the NDP, than there is of Alberta actually separating from Canada.
JV – are you an idiot, or just playing one on TV? The Clarity Act allows for a province to leave the country upon a clear majority in a referendum with a clear question. It also demands that the rest of the country negotiate n good faith to make it happen
Our First Nation Overlords must be appeased before we can exercise our democratic right? Sorry, but you aren’t as special as we have let you believe. No veto. You can use your one vote just like the rest of us.
Guy – Speaking of idiocy you’re so out of touch with reality there’s no point in entertaining anything you just said. All I can say is there’s a reason whitebread pieces of trash like you don’t make the decisions in this country anymore. That’s why no matter what y’all separatists have to say in court you’re going to lose… miserably. Enjoy being just another province in Canada. Selling CANADA’S oil 🤣
Ben –
Canada Population = 41,470,000
Alberta Population = 5,000,000
So less than 13% can decide on whether Alberta leaves Canada?
Stop wasting our money and time.
First nation need consent? For what? They were given land within Canada, and now they want to backtrack and get more out of the country? How about stop acting like a different people within the country you’re trying to fleece you fools, integrate into the country age don’t try to act like your own sovereign nation, you’re not, just like the goofs in Quebec but they all know if Alberta leaves, so does just about all the money in the country, that’s why they don’t want Alberta to leave, because it’s the bank of the nation.
How about we ignore them, and do what’s best for the taxpayers that have put their effort into the country, this is insane, what next? They start demanding land titles be given to them too? What idiocy
Sturgeon Creek Nation Population=4000
Alberta Population =5,000,000
So less than .1% can decide on whether we get a referendum?
Stop wasting our money and time.
“Times are changing. Don’t need your permission anymore. A separate Alberta is a flourishing e Alberta” 🤣🤣🤣 I love it when these treasonous seperatists think they’ve already won. Uhh yeah I think we’ll let the courts decide on this one buddy.. and I’ll tell you right now. It doesn’t good for y’all
The freedumb fighters in Alberta are about to get a taste of reality
They are so terrified of a question? They love wasting the courts time don’t they!
I hope to see Our Natives not have to fight for their own rights in owning Alberta rather than any white free loading “”Aggressive Right Wingers”” who have been trying to take it away from them.
Best of luck today. I appreciate the action you are taking. Those who want to leave Canada are welcome to move. I am a proud Canadian and from Alberta.
Times are changing. Don’t need your permission anymore. A separate Alberta is a flourishing Alberta. No more need for freeloaders from the east or on the reserves here.
Since when does 1 occupant of a building get to decide what the owner of the building wants? This is a clear cut case of natives trying to control Canada. As long as the treaties are honoured, they have no basis for complaint. – they are worried that we should return to honouring the treaties, not handing out bales of money to the natives, over and above the treaties, like the Liberals are doing.
The courts should not even be giving this whining any attention.